Intuition Is More Important To Discovery Than

For A Long Time The Objects That Mathematicians Dealt With Were Mostly Ill-defined; One Believed One Knew Them, But One Represented Them With The Senses And Imagination; But One Had But A Rough Picture And Not A Precise Idea On Which Reasoning Could Take Hold.

Most Striking At First Is The Appearance Of Sudden Illumination, A Manifest Sign Of Long Unconscious Prior Work.

Sociology Is The Science With The Greatest Number Of Methods And The Least Results.

In The Old Days When People Invented A New Function They Had Something Useful In Mind.

We Also Know How Cruel The Truth Often Is, And We Wonder Whether Delusion Is Not More Consoling.